The Oldies Thread

[LEONARD]

I used to love that place, was always fascinated with the Tarot cards and the Frankenstein masks. My mum used to hate the place because I used to buy those mini bangers that would fit in the end of a ciggie.

One of my 'mates' put a whole pack of itching powder down the back of my neck.

The 19 bus ride back to Walton was a nightmare.

 

[degsy]

Anybody ever call it teem ? Calling @Methuselah.

Never heard of it, pour in our house

 

[degsy]

Anybody ever call it teem ? Calling @Methuselah.

Mystery solved.
The scale of the map is misleading.
The two blue dots 'In Liverpool' are actually in an area between Old Halewood Village, Hale Village and Hale Bank and Bickerstaffe to the north.
The survey, done in the mid to late 50s was compiled in the early 60s when these places were rural and 'isolated' from the major surrounding industrial conurbatons due to static population movement.
The subject interviewed were all 'old' and male, so learned the language of their district in Victoria's day
Which is why nobody will have heard the word 'teem'...it was probably dying out when recorded.

Re Liverpool and other town dialects.
One of the main fieldworkers, Stanley Ellis, later wrote, "The problems of the investigation of town dialects … are so complex as to be unsolvable.

 

[summerisle]

My, this takes me back.

 

[summerisle]

These were delicious.

 

[magicjuan]

Never heard teem in my life.

Have heard, and use, teeming for heavy rain.

 

[kev]

Have heard, and use, teeming for heavy rain.

I often use the term 'it's teeming down' in reference to heavy rain. Never ever heard it used in relation to pouring tea though.

 

[magicjuan]

I often use the term 'it's teeming down' in reference to heavy rain. Never ever heard it used in relation to pouring tea though.

Agree with that.

 

[degsy]

Have heard, and use, teeming for heavy rain.

Teeming down - Well known for rain and so is - pouring down
Not a great leap from rain to tea

 

[magicjuan]

Teeming down - Well known for rain and so is - pouring down
Not a great leap from rain to tea

Yes, I've often thrown a couple of random teabags into a puddle...

 

[roydo]

Went to the GP for the first time probably ever for anything other than football cuts and scrapes, (Jabs as a kid dont count).

"Oh its a normal condition for someone getting older".

ffs. Prescribed a cream to keep me skin moist. I mean, come on.

 

[summerisle]

A proper chocolate selection box, used to love those lime candies.

 

[Billysgingham.]

A proper chocolate selection box, used to love those lime candies.

No wonder they stop selling mate kin horrible looking things.

 

[anjelikaferrett]

I'm in Liverpool on Monday night to see OMD in their 40th anniversary tour. 40 years!!!!!! The first time I saw them was October 1979 at Liverpool Uni Freshers Ball. As I said before 40 bloody years!!! And I still love them.

 

[summerisle]

No wonder they stop selling mate kin horrible looking things.

It's the taste that matters baby.